Kate McKinnon Quotes

I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it.

I couldn't care less about sex unless I meet someone who I think is wonderful.

I think it's easy for me to connect to some people, and I don't know if that's the same thing as falling in love whereas before, I might have said it was.

Well I think if you really go out with someone for quite a long time you do get to know each other very, very well, you go through the good times, you go through the bad times. You know both personally, but also within a relationship as well.

It's a very sweet and often problematic situation where people feel like they know me and they're concerned for me. It creates these strange little intimate moments.

I love Shillington not as one loves Capri or New York, because they are special, but as one loves one's own body and consciousness, because they are synonymous with being.

I believe that if writers want their readers to care about a character, they have to care themselves. I have to root for a detective who screws up as much as Thorne does, who shares my birthday, my North London stomping ground, and my love of country music, both alt and cheesy.

I think the best way to become a character is by osmosis as opposed to thinking directly about stuff.

The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us.

I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.

If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

My only self-confidence and satisfaction comes from the people that I do meet; I have fondness for people. I mean, I like to hug. And I also like to be hugged.

The only thing I have never known is true intimacy with a man. I absolutely wanted to discover that before dying.

I didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them.

I really love to set things in places that are real to me.

I'm not one to run around with different girls. I like someone that makes me feel good and that I can make feel good.

I had been coming to America very frequently for many, many years, so I had plenty of exposure - and maybe the best kind of exposure, because I think first impressions are very important. Maybe I notice stuff that is just subliminal to people who live here all the time.

Often, if I read a story and I'm moved, I have an understanding for a character and I don't really know why.

I love my job; I love the world that it is. But I don't want someone who is just in love with that world. I want to be with someone who is in love with me, warts and all.

I love coming back to Edinburgh. It's nice to spend real time here.

There's only so many variations on the basics of human relationships. To me, it's all about the detail and how you tell the story. How you say, 'I love you.'

I feel like people make such a big deal out of sexuality. It's so weird to me, because at the end of the day, it's just about soul connection. It's just about who you connect with.

You need more than a year to grow on somebody, and it's very intimate being invited into people's homes every day. Once that trust is built, then you're like that old friend. That's the sweet spot.

Dominic Ingle has seen me probably from 9 years old coming through. He was watching from the outside.